Tooms
Sign in to save"Tooms" is the twenty-first episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files, premiering on the Fox network on April 22, 1994. It was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong, and directed by David Nutter. The episode featured Mitch Pileggi's first appearance as Assistant Director Walter Skinner and saw Doug Hutchison and William B. Davis reprise their roles as Eugene Victor Tooms and the Cigarette Smoking Man, respectively. "Tooms" received positive reviews from critics, and it earned a Nielsen household rating of 8.6, being watched by 8.1 million househo
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- The X-Files
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- 1
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- 21
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- 1X20
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- Glen Morgan James Wong
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- David Nutter
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- 45 minutes
- Television episode.guests
- Doug Hutchison as Eugene Victor Tooms Paul Ben-Victor as Dr. Aaron Monte Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner Henry Beckman as Detective Frank Briggs Jan D'Arcy as Judge Kann William B. Davis as the Smoking Man
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- Darkness Falls
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- Born Again
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- The X-Files season 1
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- List of The X-Files episodes
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- Original language
- English language
- Series
- The X-Files
- Followed by
- Born Again
- Follows
- Darkness Falls
- Director
- David Nutter
- Screenwriter
- James Wong
- Cast member
- David Duchovny
- Narrative location
- Baltimore
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- The X-Files, season 1
- title
- Tooms
- production code
- 1X20
- publication date
- 1994-04-22
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"Tooms" is the twenty-first episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files, premiering on the Fox network on April 22, 1994. It was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong, and directed by David Nutter. The episode featured Mitch Pileggi's first appearance as Assistant Director Walter Skinner and saw Doug Hutchison and William B. Davis reprise their roles as Eugene Victor Tooms and the Cigarette Smoking Man, respectively. "Tooms" received positive reviews from critics, and it earned a Nielsen household rating of 8.6, being watched by 8.1 million households in its initial broadcast.
The show centers on FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. When mutant serial killer Eugene Tooms, last seen in "Squeeze", is released from prison, Mulder and Scully try to stop him from resuming his killing spree. Tooms, however, sets out to frame Mulder for assault before the agent can apprehend him.
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